Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 15,845, Ebenezer French, N.H.

SERVICE
NUMBER
N.H.
French, Ebenezer
S 15,845
CONTENTS
Carded

loc. 2. zw.
15845 INVALID.
[Handwritten checkmark]
Aug. 27, 1904. Hist. to T. Dyer, Foxcroft, Me.
File No. 15845-
Ebenezer French
Pre Rev War
Act: June 7" 32
Index:—Vol. / , Page 133
[Arrangement of 1870.]

18910
Name
Cheneget French
of Kennebec in the State of Maine who was a private in the Company commanded by Captain Rowe of the 2nd Regt, commanded by Col Poor in the 1st Maine line for 7 mos
Inscribed on the Roll of Maine at the rate of 23 Dollars 33 Cents per annum, to commence on the 14th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 24 day of July 1833 and sent to R. C. Van - Present
Arrears to the 14th of March 1833 $46.66 Semi-ant. allowance ending Sept 11.66
$58.32
{ Revolutionary Claim, } { Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by W. L. Warren Clerk,
Book E Vol. 1 Page 15

Ebenezer French 24559 26087 Private New Hampshire troops Rowe's Co: Poor's regt. 7 months.
Seven months as a private.
Applicant infirm - certified by Judge April 4, 1833. in open court.
Proof Job Sherburn, credible witness.
abund 7 mo. pri  $ 22 33
R. C. Vose, Augusta, Me.

Declaration.
In order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress of the 7th of June, 1832.
STATE OF MAINE, } ss. KENNEBEC COUNTY, }
On this Sixteenth day of August A. D. 1832 personally appeared before the Hon. NATHAN WESTON, Jun'r, a Justice of the Supreme Judicial Court, of said State, Ebenezer French a resident of New Sharon in the County of Kennebec and State of Maine, aged Seventy Seven years, who being first duly sworn, according to law, doth on his oath make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the Act of Congress, passed June 7, 1832. That he enlisted in the Army of the United States in the year 1775 with Captain Winthrop Rowe and served in Col. Enoch Poor's regiment of the New Hampshire line or troops under the following named officers: viz. Ganbourn Ensign, Zebrulon Hilliard Lieutenant, Rowe Capt., Joseph Willey Major, McClellan Lt. Col. Enoch Poor Col., That he enlisted in that company & regiment as a private in June 1775 for the remainder of the eight months service, then about seven months, that he served at Winter Hill, Cambridge, Massachusetts , & was discharged verbally in December of the same year after serving at least seven months.
And to the following questions propounded under the instructions of the War Department, he answers:
That he was born the 24 th day of March 1755 in South Hampton New Hampshire , where he presumes his age is recorded where his home was during his revolutionary services, that he afterwards lived in London , then removed to Maine , lived in Readfield Hastily in said New Sharon , where he has lived upwards of thirty years. That he enlisted was not drafted or received as a substitute & did not receive a written discharge. That he has named such of his officers as he now recollects. That any of his neighbors will testify to his character for veracity & their belief of his services, and he does not know of any person living who served with him whose evidence he can procure.
He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or an annuity, except the present, and he declares that his name is not on the Pension Roll of any agency in any State.
Ebenezer French
17. Augt.

discharged verbally in December of the same year after serving at least seven months. —
And to the questions propounded under the instructions of War Department, he answers:
That he was born the 24 th day of March 1755 in South Hampton New Hampshire, where he presumes his age is recorded & where his home was during his revolutionary services, that he afterwards lived in London, then removed to Maine, lived in Readfield Hasty in said New Sharon, where he has lived upwards of thirty years. That he enlisted was not drafted or received as a substitute & did not receive a written discharge. That he has named such of his officers as he now recollects. That any of his neighbors will testify to his character for veracity & their belief of his services, and he does not know of any person living who served with him whose evidence he can procure.
He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or an annuity, except the present, and he declares that his name is not on the Pension Roll of any agency in any State.
17. Augt. Ebenezer French
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid. Before
Nathan Weston Esq. not S. J. C.
And the said Judge does hereby declare his opinion that the above named applicant was a Revolutionary Soldier, and served as he states.
Nathan Weston Esq.
State of Maine. April 4, 1833. It has been made to appear to my satisfaction that the above named applicant, by reason of age & infirmity, cannot without prejudice to his health, appear in open court to renew his declaration & again to make oath to the same,
Nathan Weston not S. J. C.

1508 13 I Jos Sherburne of Readfield, Me., aged Seventy five years & upwards, a pensioner on the Maine Roll under the law of 1818 & an Officer in the Army during the last war, do upon oath testify & declare, that I well know the within named Ebenezer French, that I believe him to be of the age he states, that I knew him when he lived in Readfield upwards of thirty years ago & then heard of his having been in the revolutionary war as a soldier, & knowing him as I do to be a man of veracity & entitled to full credit & from the reputation he maintains of having been a soldier I have no doubt that he served as he states.
Subscribed and sworn to August 17 1832, the deponent being a credible witness before Nathan Weston Junr. and J. C. Jos. Sherburne
State of Maine.
KENNEBEC, ss.—I, JOHN A. CHANDLER, Clerk of all the Judicial Courts held within and for the County of Kennebec, hereby certify that the Hon. NATHAN WESTON, Jun'r, before whom the within proceedings was had, is a Justice of the Supreme Judicial Court of said State; I also certify that the within contains the original proceedings of the said Judge, in the matter of the application of Ebenezer French for a pension.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and the seal of the said Court, this 17 th day of August
A. D. 183 2,
J. A. Chandler